The apartment looks so French. Artist Rick created the wonderful book, Paris Cafe: The Select Crowd. If you love Paris, you'll love Rick's book. His lace curtains are to die for. I went looking all over for them. I found some inBHV but I had no measurements nor clue how to figure sizes etc. I love the stripped French dish towels/curtains in the cuisine. An everyday still life on the table. *Note the pear tile. This kitchen painting spoke to me, "Go home and paint PEARS!" Did you know there is a fresh water well in the Butte aux Cailles park?

OK Carol...This seems to be week you've insisted on knocking-the-socks-offthis sjerseyboy! (and YES, we do wear socks in S. Jersey)I love both of these pear paintings, but the 2nd one; so elegant in its' simplicity, so lush in the washes, so...very, very deeeeeliscious!

Your paintings are out of this world beautiful, I love them! Those pears, their coloring, that basket, that bowl, those pears! :-)

And Rick's place,for the very first time,really really really tempts me to come to Paris,if only for the area were he lives!Right after my heart.Do you think he'd want to make an exchange Vienna - Paris? ;-)

oooohhhh.....When I started reading and it said 13th... I thought ...oh my...Rue de la Butte aux Cailles.....and then there it was ! I agree - such a little hidden gem of a place. I used to have friends with an office and a tiny studio flat just off where I stayed a couple of times. Happy days :)

Pears! And a new romantic spot. This is just beckoning. Of curse Bogart is running through my head with that title....and that ain't bad. :) Always a delight here. I LOVE the greys, the stairs, the cuisine, the lace and and the pears...how fabulous and how local..merci, merci!!

Carol you kept getting better and better --- if that is at all possible, love the pears, love the photographs of the street and the divine apartment --Rue de la Butte aux Cailles-- tempting to leave this beautiful Oregon and live in a Paris apartment--- had a little apartment years ago in New York with cobblestone street & all the delightful clutter & art strewn around.. but it wasn't ParisAnnie -Oregon

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I find it awfully damning that quite often I fail the "human being" test and my post is rejected because I can't read the little deformed word. However, to you post:I have Rick's cut crystal vase! The one sitting by the mirror. It belonged to my late mother-in-law. My vase has not the good fortune of Rick's: mine sits on a shelf at Longears, not in Paris....Fantastic pears! You have been holding out on us, leading us to believe you could only paint desserts. And , no matter what your mother told you, fruit is NOT dessert!

beautiful.. but la piscine Molitor is actually closed since 1989. As you can see on the website pictures it was one of the most beautiful swimming pools in Paris. I used to go there as a child as I used to live nearby (West Paris). The swimming pool with fresh water you mentionned is la piscine de la Butte aux Cailles. A very nice swimming pool indeed! Love your blog, greetings from a parisienne reader

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I moved to Paris 2 years ago. I should have done it sooner but that's how the macaron crumbles. Living on the Ile Saint Louis next to the Seine after the 19eme is 'la cerise sur la gâteau'. It doesn't get any better. I've painted watercolors for Bocuse, Champagne Mumm, Guerlain, Frederick Cassel, The Russian Tearoom and the Maharana of Udaipur.
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